Bracelet



Nov. 15, 1927.

E. GEBHARDT BRACELET Filed April 18, 1924 Patented Nov. 15, 1927..

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EDWIN GEIBHAIHIJT. OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGI'TOR TO THE GEBHARDT 1?,B10TI-HEIRS COMPANY, 01 CINCINNATI, OHIO, A. CDI-tlORATIODT OF OHIO.

BRACELET.

Application filed April lS, 1924:. Serial No. 737,524.

My invention relates to bracelets to be worn for ornaments, and more particularly to a device in which the main bracelet is a flexible backing member onto which the decorative elements are mounted in a simple manner and connected together in one or more units to provide the amount of jewels or decoration desired, and in which the decorative units may be increased from time to time.

It is the object of my invention to provide a series of sliders on a bracelet of ribbon or the like, which have a simple means for securing them together and which will when placed on the wrist, stay firmly in place, without chance of becoming dislodged unt l the wearer by properly directed action desires to remove them. The sliders may then be set with jewels without chance of being lost, and many of them secured together on the ribbon, as may be desired, or may correspond with the sum which the wearer desires to spend.

It is my objectto provide a structure which is simple to manufacture, and easy to mount, and in which the mode of attachment of the parts together is not apparent to the observer.

I accomplish these objects bythat certain construction and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more specifically pointed out and claimed.

In the drawing:

Figure l is a front elevation of the devices forming my invention.

Figure 2 is a rear elevation of the same.

Figure 3 is a section on a larger scale taken on the line 33 of Figure 1, showing the inside of the ribbon up.

Figure 4 is a side elevation on a larger scale.

Figure is a plan view of a connector piece.

Figure 6 is a like view of the connector piece with the jewel plate removed.

Figure 7 is a plan view oi an intermediate slider piece.

Figure 8 is a section on line 8-8 of Figure 7 showing the jewel plate in place.

I have shown a bracelet or ribbon havin 7 O a slider 1 secured to one end of the ribbon 2, and the other end of the ribbon is secured to a pin 3. The slider 1 has a loop 1 over which the one end of the ribbon is sewedi The der is moved along to efiect adjustmeut of the diameter of the bracelet, in the usual maner, and the stiffened end is trapped by the ornaments. Some other mode of forming the bracelet could ue used, and adjusting it to size, and while 1 preterthe form shown, as working in with my improvements effectively, I do not insist upon it.

The ornaments are in the form of sliders. I have shown three, but any number can be hitched together, like links in a chain, all the way around the ribbon, so long as they do not interfere with the mode of getting the bracelet on and ott from the wrist.

There are connector sliders, and intermediate sliders in the form shown. The connector sliders have a top 4-, and turned under flanges 4;. t which engage over the ribbon and hold the slider in place thereon.

The connector sliders have tongues 5 which are formed into channels or hooks at both ends of the sliders, and one or more tiny posts or pins 6 are set intothe outer lips of the channels. The flanges 4 at the sides of the device are formed with projections 5.

The intermediate sliders are formed with tops 7, and flanges 7 7, for engaging over the ribbon, and having bent down edges 8, and holes for the tiny posts. The flanges 7 are formed with indentations 8 to engage around the projections 5 and form a close fit.

The tops of the plates may be unitary with the same, or may be in part, inserts, of more precious metal, set into spaces left in the tops, as will be obvious without illustration. The tops will usually be set with jewels, as indicated at 9.

In placing the sliders 011 the ribbon, the ribbon is placed between the flanges, and the intermediate plates are tipped so that the. turned down edges enter the channels in the connector plates, and the tiny posts enter the holes in said intermediate plates.

The intermediate plates are then tipped back to lie parallel with the connector plates.

When so connected any poll on the parts will fail to dislodge them, and a direct separation by pushing up or down on the con nected parts, will not separate the interengaging hooks 5 and 8.

The interconnected projections and laden ttti'ons Stand 8, prevent this "ttr'atioii and the ribbon itself tends te prevent it.

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The only way to disconnect the sliders is to loosen or take oil the bracelet, and tip the unconnected ends of the intermediate sliders outwardly, thereb rocking the projections and indentations 5 and 8, out of interengagement and then lifting the intermediate plates away from the tiny posts.

It is evident that a purchaser of the bracelet may buy but one connector slider, and may thereafter purchase several intern'iediate sliders, and may then purchase more connectors or intermediate sliders. Also the intermediate sliders may be formed as connectors at one end and intermediates at the other.

lVhere the ribbon has a tilled end, it will be held from running through the decorative slider, which is furthest from the size adjusting slider 1, since the added thickness will prevent its passing underneath the flanges ot the slider adjacent to it.

In Figures 6, 7 and 8. I have illustrated a way of making up the two lzinds of sliders out of small stampings, over which covers of desired patterns of precious metal and set with precious stones. may be mounted.

The intermediate sliders are formed as a four sided frame 20. with the slider tongues 21, bent over at the side edges thereof. The connector sliders have frame-like bodies .22, with slider tongues 93 and flanges 24; at the two sides, turned up to act as hooks, under the side bars of the frames of the intermediate sliders. If small projections 25 are left on the ends of flanges 2t, they will serve as the posts 6, in the first described form. The side bars of frames will have notches 26 for partly receiving the projections 25.

Thepieces so formed will be sold as findings and over them are placed covers, indicated in Figure 8, providing a. decorative top. The covers have bodies 26, and turned down flanges 27, which snap over the heads formed by the tongues 21 or 23. The jeweler will set the covers in place and then hold them fast with solder. The plates will clear the hooks formed by the flanges 24, and if the projections are used the fittings may have holes in them for clearance. The frame 90, with a top secured upon it. presents the same general appearance, and has the same functions as the intermediate sliders first noted. The same is true for the connectors.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent. is

1. A bracelet comprising a flexible. oncircling band. and a plurality of detachable sliders thereon, formed as a connector slider, and an intermediate slider. the connector slider having tongues at the ends formed with channels. and the intermediate slider having tongues at the ends formed to engage in said channels, and posts mounted on the tongues of one slider. and the other slider having holes to engage over said'posts. along the line of connection between said channels.

2. A bracelet comprising a flexible, encircling band, and a plurality of detachable sliders thereon. formed as a connector slider, and an intermediate slider. the connector slider having tongues at the ends formed with channels, and the intermediate slider having tongues at the ends formed to engage in said channels, and posts mounted on the tongues of one slider, and the other slider having holes to engage over said posts, along the line of connection between said channels, said sliders having projections and indentations at the sides thereof, respectively, adapted to come into engagement when the tongues are hooked together and the posts are in the holes.

EDlVlN GEBl-IARDT. 

